Rose on Scottish Silver.

[paulh]

This is the engraving on a piece of Elgin silver c1820. Can anyone identify the owner please?

[davidappleton]

It is harder to identify with certainty when we do not have the tincture of the rose. That said, Fairbairn’s Book of Crests gives the following family names as bearing for a crest a rose: Abcot, Abcott, Anketel, Adderly, Aiton, Aitoune, Aytoun, Bull, Fraser, Gleig, Hesketh, Marmion, Pether, Shaw, Stowers, Thomson, Timins, Currey, Currie, Foxton, Hoole, Rushbrooke, Sparrow, Dorville, and Dupre. (Some of these are, obviously, different spellings of the same names.)

David

[paulh]

Thanks David. Fairbairn's is always my first reference when searching for a crest, but although there are plenty of roses none seem to match this one.
When I have more time, I think I may try cross referencing them with locations. This is on a piece by an Elgin maker, so it might be the case that it was made for a local family.

Paul.